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BRATISLAVA 15 – 17 NOVEMBER 2014
ŠTÚDIO L+S
Opening speeches: Martin Bútora (Slovakia) – Sir Robert Cooper (UK) –
Franz-Karl Prüller (Austria) – Julia Sherwood (Slovakia / UK)
(By invitation only)
This phenomenon, a kind of poisoning of the collective mind, has affected
and, to some degree paralyzed, countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as
well as the US and other parts of the world. What is its cause and what are its
implications?
Mitchell Cohen (US) – György Dalos (Hungary) – Haris Pašović
(Bosnia-Herzegovina) – Jurko Prochasko (Ukraine). Chair: Thierry Chervel
(Germany)
SATURDAY)(15 NOVEMBER)(ŠTÚDIO L + S
Námestie 1. mája 5, Bratislava
20:30)(BELARUS FREE THEATRE
)(DISCOVER LOVE
FRIDAY)(14 NOVEMBER
Moyzes Hall, Gondova 2, Bratislava
18:30)(TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER
15:00)(OPENING
15:15)(A DIVIDED EUROPE
What does the conﬂict over Ukraine mean for Central Europe? What is an
ethical and what is a meaningful stand vis-à-vis Russia? And which of the
harsh historical lessons are more relevant today? Is it 1938 – aggression won’t
stop of its own accord unless we take a stand? Or, going further back in
history, is it 1914 – if we allow war to ﬂare up, will it stop of its own accord?
And what damage have recent developments inﬂicted on the idea of Visegrad
and, more generally, that of Central Europe?
Biljana Srbljanović (Serbia) – Sir Robert Cooper (UK) – Vasyl Cherepanyn
(Ukraine) – Ivan Gabal (Czech Republic) – Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) – Ingo
Schulze (Germany). Chair: Aleksander Kaczorowski (Poland)
17:30)(THE SHRINKING PUBLIC SPACE
We seem to be living in an era of disappearing privacy as well as rapidly
shrinking public spaces. How did this happen and what does it mean for us?
Václav Bělohradský (Czech Republic) – Gilles Lipovetsky (France). Chair:
Michal Havran (Slovakia)
SUNDAY)(16 NOVEMBER)(ŠTÚDIO L + S
Námestie 1. mája 5, Bratislava
15:00)(US AND THEM
Society has become hopelessly divided into sections incapable of
communicating with one another, everyone feeling victimized by the others.
The play Discover Love has been awarded the French Republic‘s Human
Rights Prize and was named the best Off-Off Broadway production by the New
York Bloggers’Association.
Marina Yurevich – Pavel Radak Haradnicki – Aleh Sidorchyk
(Performed in Russian with English subtitles)
21:45)(THEATRE AND FREEDOM
Discussion with the Belarus Free Theatre directors
Natalia Kaliada – Nikolaj Khalezin (Belarus / UK). Chair: Ján Šimko (Slovakia)
MONDAY)(17 NOVEMBER)(ŠTÚDIO L + S
Námestie 1. mája 5, Bratislava
11:00)(THE STICKING POINT
Traditional family as a moral value is the greatest weapon used by Putin’s
Russia in its ideological offensive: Europe will corrupt us. Which concept is
more artiﬁcial – tradition or human rights?
Maria Lipman (Russia) – Jacek Dehnel (Poland) – Leonidas Donskis
(Lithuania) – Robert Menasse (Austria). Chair: Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia)
13:00)(FATHERS AND CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
People who were too young to take part in the revolutions of 1989 are now
saying: the only role your revolution has ultimately assigned to us is that
of industrious multipliers of our own wealth. What if that is not enough for
us?
Mary Kaldor (UK) – Fatos Lubonja (Albania) – Slawomir Sierakowski (Poland).
Chair: Martin M. Šimečka (Slovakia)
FRINGE EVENTS
FRIDAY)(14 NOVEMBER)(17:00)(INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC
AFFAIRS (IVO) AT THE GOETHE-INSTITUT LIBRARY
Panenská 682/33, Bratislava
Ten years in the EU: the Slovak and Czech path. Launch of a new IVO book
that seeks answers to the question of how EU membership has affected
people’s everyday lives, the functioning of democratic institutions, human
rights and minority rights, civil society development, sense of European
solidarity and support for the EU’s fundamental values.
Oľga Gyarfášová (Slovakia) – Jarmila Lajčáková (Slovakia) – Grigorij
Mesežnikov (Slovakia). Chair: Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia)
SUNDAY)(16 NOVEMBER)(ŠTÚDIO L+S
Námestie 1. Mája 5, Bratislava
17:30)(GLOBSEC AT CENTRAL EUROPEAN FORUM
The vision of an undivided, free and peaceful Europe has not materialized.
Following the EU and NATO enlargement, both organizations have been
showing signs of fatigue. Are there any attractive, Russia-oriented alternatives
to European and Atlantic integration? And what can be done to support
Ukraine? Has Central Europe done enough in this respect?
Josef Braml (Germany) – Vasyl Cherepanyn (Ukraine) – Andrei Soldatov
(Russia). Chair: Mário Nicolini (Slovakia)
(Organised jointly with the Slovak Atlantic Commission, member of the
Central European Strategic Council)
TUESDAY)(18 NOVEMBER)(18:00)(CENTRAL EUROPEAN
FORUM IN BANSKÁ BYSTRICA)(KLUB 77
Horná 54, Banská Bystrica
Guest speaker: Aleksander Kaczorowski (Poland)
WEDNESDAY)(19 NOVEMBER)(COMENIUS UNIVERSITY,
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES,
Mlynské luhy 4, Bratislava
11:30)(THE MERIT OF NOVEMBER ’89 – THE MERIT OF DISSENT
Guest speaker: Mitchell Cohen (US)